Reinforced casket-handle.



No. 846,545. PATENTED MAR. 12, 1907. BREMBR.

REINFORCED GASKET HANDLE.

APPLICATION FILED APR.'13,1906.

UNITED s'rA' rr s IZATENT OFFICE.

MAX BREMER, OF ELGIN, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO THE WESTERN CASKET HARDWARE COMPANY, OF ELGIN, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLI- NOIS.

REINFORCED CASKET-HANDLE.

Patented. March 12,1907.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MAX BREMER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Elgin, in the county of Kane and State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Reinforced OasketIIandles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to handle devices for caskets and the like, and has for its object to provide new and improved constructions in devices of that character.

The invention has more particularly for its object to provide strengthening or reinforcing means for the parts of the handle to prevent accidental breaking. Ordinarily in devices of this character the visible parts are constructed of some soft metal which may be cast or worked into ornamental forms; but unless properly reinforced these parts are likely to break away or tear at the joints where the strain comes.

My invention contemplates providing an efiicient reinforcing means.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is an elevation of the device with parts broken away for purposes of illustration; Fig. 2, a section on line 2 2 of Fig 1; Fig. 3. a rear'view of one of the sockets; 1' ig. i, a side elevation of the socket-brace; Fig. 5, a side elevation of a hanger-brace, and Fig. 6 a section on line 6 6 of Big. 2.

Like parts are indicated by the same letter in all the drawings.

The device is shown as comprising a handle A, sockets B B, and hangers C C. It will be understood that there may be any number of sockets and hangers associated with a single handle. The sockets and their associated parts are the same; so it will not be necessary to describe but one of these combinations of parts.

The socket will ordinarily be made of some soft metal which can be given an ornamental design. It is here shown as a dish-shaped or recessed plate having the central aperture B, the material on each side forming bearings B B for the pivot B of the hanger. The socket has preferably the screw-holes B B The body of the hanger will also preferably be of some soft metal and has a perforation for the pivot .D. The upper end of the hanger is preferably rounded at C, so as to turn easily in the aperture B of the socket.

end of the hanger is in the form of a ring O which surrounds the handle A, being secured thereto by the screw C Embedded in the hanger is a reinforcingbrace E, having a ring E atone end corresponding to the ring C the other end following the curvature of the part C and lying between the outside of the hanger and a PI'Q'. j ection O formed on the inside of the hanger above the pivot-hole for the pivot B. The inner end of the reinforcing-brace E is provided with the hook -E adapted to engage with the reinforcement associated with the socket. This reinforcementconsists, preferably, of the plate or horizontal strip 1*, having screw-holes F F corresponding to the holes B B of the socket and integral therewith an upstanding part or projection F having the aperture 11 and the two perforated lugs E, which lie within and reinforce the bearings B B of the socket. The pivot D, it will be understood, extends through the perforations in these reinforcing-lugs.

When the handle is lifted, it will be obvious that a strain will be exerted at the connections between the hanger and the socket, the hanger and the handle, and the socket and the object to which it is attached. My reinforcing devices take up all of this strain and efiectually prevent the tearing out or the breaking away of the softer metal parts. The connection between the hanger and the handle A is reinforced by the ring E, that between the parts at the pivot D by the lugs F and the crushing and tearing strains due to the impingement" of the hanger against the socket is taken up by the end of the reinforcing-brace E, the hook E and the part F of the socket-brace, the vertical strain being taken b the end of the brace E above the hook, w la the handle is prevented from being crushed and pulled out sidewise by the hook E, which extends around the part F The connection of the socket to the casket will be made through the apertures B in the socket, this connection being reinforced by the part F of the bracing structure. It is understood, of course, that these bracing structurels are of some tenacious material, such as stee I Wish it to be understood that I do not desire to be limited to the exact details of construction shown and described, for obthe hanger provided with a curved part lying 1o vious modifications will occur to any person over and partly around the pivot, and a lug skilled in the art. on the end of said reinforcement adapted to I claim extend into the slot in the socket-reinforc- In a handle device, the combination of a ing plate when the handle is lifted.

socket with a hanger, a pivot for the hanger, MAX BREMER.

a reinforcing-plate in the socket, perforated Witnesses:

lugs on said plate forming bearings for the i LUoY A. FALKENBERG,

pivot, a slot in said plate, areinforcement in PEROIVAL H. TRUMAN. 

